Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.

I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table

Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.

Half of my employees are women.

I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.

I expected to go into journalism or law.

Being a mother was like being trapped in the first fifteen minutes of a horror film. Everything was fine, lovely. But there was this persistent sense of dread.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.

To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

When I hear Donald Trump say, "Make America great again", I wonder when he thought America ever was great." He has been criticizing our country for decades. He even criticized Ronald Reagan.

Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course

Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.

The first day, week and month of an employees experience carries a lasting impression.

I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.